Mental Health

Mental Health

Erasing the stigma of suicide: Nobody should have to struggle alone

When you hear the term “mental illness”, what’s the first image that pops into your mind?  For nearly half the participants in a 2017 study, this prompt conjured up negative impressions of...

Mental Health

There’s hope, even when our family experiences have shaped us for the worse

Growing up, Abigail Lee struggled with revealing her true self to her family members.  “The expectation I had as a youth was that each time I showed my negative emotions and feelings, I would...

Personalities

Kanye West’s breakdown reminded me of my own struggles with mental health

Reading the news on how Kanye West was acting bizarrely and making references to the faith during a presidential campaign rally made me reflect on my own mental health journey and how people around...

Mental Health

Struggling with mental health? You can walk this journey with medical help and Christ

During her late 20s, Charmaine Wee started seeing visions and hearing voices that seemed different from her usual spiritual experiences. As she struggled to identify which of these were from God, the...

Mental Health

Confessions of an introvert: Help, Mr Downer lives inside my head

I don’t know about you, but whenever I have a social thing coming up in the week or two ahead, it weighs on me. And it doesn’t even have to be a big thing! Just attending a conference or...

Mental Health

I always thought Good Christian girls didn’t get depressed

I remember the first time I knew deep in my gut that I had depression.  I was like any 20-year-old – my days consisted of going for classes in university, serving in church, trying new recipes and...

Mental Health

A letter to you, the student overwhelmed by life

I found out about you because someone forwarded to me the news about your “unnatural death”. The time the police were called was listed as 6.50am on Monday, June 8. I wondered about that. I...

Friendship

What am I worth if I can’t keep my friendships?

When I was very young, my parents parted ways. Though my mum remarried, I still never got to experience what growing up in a stable family is like. Essentially, I’ve never had parental figures...

COVID-19

Battling fever for 20 days and getting tested for COVID-19: I was on an emotional roller coaster

On February 3, I returned to Singapore from Shanghai and served my 14-day leave of absence (LOA) without any symptoms.  But on February 21, I developed a fever that broke only on March 11. Yes, I...